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Week 5 Discussion

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"Business and Government Relations"  Please respond to the following:

• Discuss the main reasons why a business should or should not be involved in political discussions or take a political stand. Use terms found in Chapter 9 to demonstrate your understanding of the material. You can submit your initial discussion post and responses in either written or video format (2-3 minutes or less)

Week 5 Discussion 1

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“Examples of Project Uncertainties.” Please respond to the following:  

• Discuss why it is useful to consider both unfavorable risks and favorable uncertainties as part of the project planning process.
• Support your discussion with an example from your own work or personal life in which an unfavorable risk interfered with your ability to execute a project as you had initially envisioned it.
• Support your discussion with an example from your own work or personal life in which an unexpected positive uncertainty caused a project to turn out better than you had envisioned it

Week 5 Discussion 2

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“Uncertainty Assessment Planning and Bias.” Please respond to the following: 

Review the Lake Washington Bridge Sinking article on the historylink.org Web site.

• In hindsight, where would you place the risk of water entering the pontoons in the uncertainty matrix presented in textbook Exhibit 6.2? Why?
• Identify and discuss at least one (1) positive outcome that could have emerged from this project crisis.
• Examine the biases (see Appendix 6A) that might have prevented the team from seeing this risk as a possibility.

Week 5 Discussion 1

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“Life Cycle Management.”

• How is the approach that NASA uses in life cycle management similar to the one used by the Department of Defense?

  Week 5 Discussion 2

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  “Logistic Support Analysis.”

  • What are the key points in logistic support analysis?

  • How would you apply them to your organization?